Saturday, July 31, 2010
American excess disguised as a caloric disaster.
American excess disguised as a caloric disaster; I wish that I had thought of it first. Damn you Friendly's!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it.
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it."
-- Chinese Proverb
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Gmail's SHVA Parameter
According to Mike Sego, a former Gmail engineer, "shva" is an acronym for "should have valid authentication". Apparently, the parameter is only included after a successful authentication.
[via Google Operating System]
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Hans Rosling's Gapminder Desktop
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGLdEzlIrs?wmode=transparent]
Monday, July 12, 2010
K.I.S.S.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
-- William Strunk
Apple's new FaceTime ads
Why tell people about FaceTime, when you can just show them? Exactly. Apple gets it.??Apple iPhone 4 FaceTime ads
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The Preamble (of the US Constitution)
Yes, this is the preamble of the US Constitution, but it's still patriotic. ;-)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc?wmode=transparent]
Friday, July 2, 2010
The best part of American Idol, applied to the US National Anthem
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_xVwLaLsS0?wmode=transparent]
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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